Jon Garthwaite
Jon Garthwaite, Editor of Townhall.com, joins Chip to talk about the acquisition of the conservative web portal by Salem Communications, as well as his outlook of the future of politics online.
If you run a subscription-based web service — or “software as a service” (SaaS) to be all fancy about it — you know that it’s not as easy as an inventory-based business to measure. If you’re selling widgets, you can figure out what your product cost is and then calculate your margins based on how…
The current challenging economic environment creates opportunities for the savvy and brave entrepreneur or investor. When many may find themselves hunkering down in an attempt to simply weather the storm, those with the appropriate vision and fortitude will take advantage of this mass hesitancy to get a jump on valuable opportunities.
The good news is that Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) is using Twitter. The bad news is that the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee slipped up and Tweeted a few details about a Congressional delegation trip to Iraq that was supposed to be kept quiet until it was over, likely for security reasons.
At DCI Group this year, we decided to have a little fun with our holiday card. Instead of sending out scads of printed cards that would just get lost in the pile of others just like it on the desks of those we work for and with, we went with a holiday e-card. But we…
Kara Swisher of the Wall Street Journal discusses Jerry Yang’s future at Yahoo — and her ideas for potential successors should he decide to step down.
Many entrepreneurs assume that to be successful they need to be acquired or go public in an IPO. Netscape, Google, and more recently LinkedIn teach us this, it seems. High-tech companies, then, are often built to sell. That tends to mean a focus on revenues over profits. It drives fundraising activity, as acquirers and public…